Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-08-05

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llIoxard ii larpor,s Mara ine Ia
IS gsS Aastst
' test 81 All. Tho buccaneers,
! EheS me- stand s pre- ninent amongst
them, and whose name even
lto this day is ii cha rm to call up his
Ssdeeds soi aatiilg, lis dauntiess courage,
5hiH true u1ellt cruelty and his iinsatii
ateand unappeasab Die ltlst for eold,
was Captain Henry Morgan, the bold
Wells Imam, who BIZ ought buccaneering
~ the height and power ofssits glory.
E Having sold himself. after the man
fler OF the times, for his passage across
the seas, be worked out his time 81
seryitnde at the Bar bad Ices. Ais soon
ias be had regained his liberty, he en-
tered upon the trade Of piracy where-
IN he soon reached q position Of con-
siderable prominence. 81
The first attempt Captain Henry
{ Morgan ever made against any town
in the Spanish Indies II was the
bold descent upon the city Of
aPualt 9 del Principe in the island 81
Cuba. with a mere! handful Of men.
It was a deed the holiness OF which
has never been outdone BY any OF d
ikenatnre mot even the famous at
tack uponP ananiai itself Thence they
returned to their boats in the very
face Of the whole island OF Cuba,
aroused and determined upon their
determination Not only did they
make good their escape, but they
brought away with them yast
amount OF plunder, &c imputed at three
hundred thou and pieces Of eight, be-
sides i've hundred head of cattle and
many prisoners held for ransom. Ct 3
But when the division, Of all this
wealth came to be made, 10! there
were only fifty thousand pieces Of
eight to be found. What had become
OF the rest no man could tell but Cap
tain Henry Morgan himself. Honesty
among thieves was never an axiom
with him. VI
Rude, truculent, and dishonest as
Captain Morgan was, he seems to
have had q wonderful power OF per-
suading the wild buccaneers under
him to submit everything to his 5jndg-
nent, and to- rely entirely upon his
word. In spite Of the vast sum 81
money that he had very evidently
made away with, recruits poured in
upon him, until his band was larger
and better equipped that ever.
The next towns to suffer their poor
Maracaybo and Gibraltar, now just
beginning to recover from the desola-
tion wrought by. L'Olonoise. Once
more both towns were plundered of
every bale OF merchandise and of every
piastre,a once more both5were ram
.somed until every thing was squeezed
from the wretched inhabitants. ":
Hare affairs were like to have taken
q turn, for when Captain Morgan
came up from Gibraltar. he found
three great men of-war lying in the
the lake awaiting his COM
ing. Seeing tnatshe was hemmed i in
the marrow sheet OF water, Captain
Morgan was inclined to compromise
matters,1eyen offering to relinquish all
the plumber he had gained il he we're
allowed to depart In peace. But no;
the Spanish admiral would hear
nothing OF this. Having the pirates
as he Thought, securely in his grasp,
he would relinquish nothing, but
would sweep them from the face OF
the sea once and forever. @g# s Z
Z ThatrWas an unlucky determination
for the Spaniards to reach for. in.
stead of .paralyzing the. pirates with.
fear, as he expected it would do, it
simply turned their mad courage in
to as mad desperation. ~ ) : .s s:5sss
Z A great vessel that they had taken
with the town of Maracaybo was con-
verified into q fire-ship. manned with
logs OF wood in montera caps
and sailor Jackets, and filed with
"brim.stone, pitch, and palm-leaves
soaked in oil. Then out Of the lake
the pirates sailed to meet the Span
iards, the fre-ship leading the.way,
and bearing down directly upon the
admiral S vessel. At the helm stood
volunteers, the most desperate and
the bravest Of all the pirate gang, and
at the ports stood the logs Of wood IN
montera caps. So they came up with
the admiral, and grappled with his.
ship in spite OF the thunder of all his
great guns, and then the Spaniard
saw, all TO late, what his opponent
really was. + u. 81 5s@ a Il
He tried to swing loose, but clouds
Of smoke and almost Instantly 9 mass
OF roaring flames enveloped both yes
sells, and the admiral was lost. The;
second vessel. not wishing to wait
for the coming Of the pirates, bore
down upon the fort, under the guns OF
which the cowardly crew sunk her.
shore. The third vessel, not having
an opportunity to escape, was taken
by the pirates without the slightest
resistance, and the passage from the
lake was cleared. SO the buccaneers
sailed away, leaving Maracaybo and
Gibraltar prosrrate q second time,
And now Captain Morgan determin-3
ed to undertake another venture, the,
like OF which had never been equalled
in all of the annals Of buccaneering.
This was nothing less than the de-
scent upon and the capture Of Pana-
ma, which was, next to Cartagena,
perhaps, the most powerful and the
most strongly fortified city in the
West Indies.
Down they poured upon Panama.
and out came the Spaniards to meet
them; four hundred horse, two thous-{
and FIVE hundred foot, and two thous-
and wild bulls which had been herd
ed together TO be driven over the buc-.,
cancers so that their ranks might ke1
disordsred and bro ken. The bucca-
neers were only eight hundred strong;
the others had either fallen III battle
or had dropped along i he rearypath.
way through the wilderness; but in
u he silxacA 81 two hours hha naniarf1as